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Custom   /kˈəstəm/   Listen
noun
Custom  n.  
1.
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. "And teach customs which are not lawful." "Moved beyond his custom, Gama said." "A custom More honored in the breach than the observance."
2.
Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. "Let him have your custom, but not your votes."
3.
(Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom.
4.
Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. (Obs.) "Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."
Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated.
General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom.
Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.
Synonyms: Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage.


Custom  n.  
1.
The customary toll, tax, or tribute. "Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom."
2.
pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.


verb
Custom  v. t.  
1.
To make familiar; to accustom. (Obs.)
2.
To supply with customers. (Obs.)


Custom  v. t.  To pay the customs of. (Obs.)


Custom  v. i.  To have a custom. (Obs.) "On a bridge he custometh to fight."





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"Custom" Quotes from Famous Books



... with caul. Loss he caul. Rat carry 'em. Ain't here; he see nothin. (The custom seems to be, to preserve ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various
... Only in a custom of such long standing, methinks, if their Holinesses the Bishops had, in decency, been first sounded—but I am wading out of my depths. I am not the man to decide the limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority—I am plain Elia—no Selden, nor Archbishop Usher—though at present ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other; a practise which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practise with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various
... the reason for the strike was announced. From the establishment of the mine it had been the custom for the miners to have their tools sharpened at a shop built and run by the property. This was done for the accommodation of the men, and the charge for keeping the tools sharp was ten cents a week for each man, or $5 a year. For twenty years no fault had been ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter
... in 20 years was held in the summer of 1992; the National Assembly is composed of 128 deputies, one-half Christian and one-half Muslim; its mandate expires in 1996 Executive branch: president, prime minister, Cabinet; note - by custom, the president is a Maronite Christian, the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of the legislature is a Shi'a Muslim Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly (Arabic - Majlis Alnuwab, French - Assemblee Nationale) Judicial ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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